Featured Teacher from UQG’s Quilt Festival!!!

Today I wanted to feature one of my favorite quilt artists whom I was lucky enough to take a class from at UQG’s Quilt Festival this past week.

This is a picture of Cynthia England and myself the day of our class. It was so fun to meet her in person… Who knew she was such a hoot?! (We won’t talk about the special fabric that she gave away to a sweet little lady in the audience. It had us all in stitches!)

This was the class that I took from her… I’m thinking it’s a 2 year project! She developed a technique called “Picture Piecing”. If you’d like to try it out, she has a couple of free patterns on her site! http://englanddesign.com/ It uses freezer paper on the front of the fabric so the pattern doesn’t have to be reversed.

Her kits were amazing!!! Everything in them that you need and in order. Talk about organization!

She had us all prepare our color/fabric guides before we got started.

And ta da!!! This is my progress after a full day of class time and several hours at home as well…Hmmm… That’s why I say it’s my 2 year project. (P.s. none of the fabric is supposed to show between the paper pieces. I may have to use some creative Micron use when it’s finished! Shhhh… Don’t tell the quilt police!

Here are a couple of Cynthia England’s beautiful quilts to inspire you.

This quilt is pretty big… It looks small in the picture. Sorry the lighting is bad, but it was in the big auditorium where lunch was held.

And this one was hanging in her booth at the show… What a gorgeous work of art!

(I saw this quilt featured in a calendar on the bathroom wall at one of my local quilt stores, and fell in love! I’ve been a big fan of Cynthia England’s ever since. And not in a crazy stalker sort of way either.) 😉

I bought one of her books and have actually use her technique on several challenge quilts!